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Esther Dale (November 10, 1885 – July 23, 1961) was an American actress, best known perhaps for her role as Aunt Genevieve in the 1935 Shirley Temple vehicle, Curly Top.
On the stage, Dale starred in Carrie Nation on Broadway in 1933. Her other Broadway credits include Harvest of Years (1947), And Be My Love (1944), and Another Language (1932).
Dale's first film was Crime Without Passion (1934) in an uncredited role. She was a familiar face in films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, frequently playing stern, authoritarian characters such as prison matrons and head nurses, although she was equally adept at playing grande dames and ladies of the aristocracy.
Dale played many roles in television over the years. In the 1958-1959 season of The Donna Reed Show, Dale played a job-seeking housekeeper who is frightened from the Stone home by Jeff Stone's pet mouse, and she appeared in the 1957 Maverick episode "According to Hoyle" opposite James Garner.
as Woman at Picnic
as Ellen the Maid(1 ep)
as Mrs. Raymond(1 ep)
as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
as Ma Braus(1 ep)
as Julia Sheldon(1 ep)
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
as Head Matron Ballard
as Birdie Hicks
as Pross
as Aunt Tabitha(1 ep)
as Mrs. Weston(1 ep)
as Mrs. Rhinelander
as Birdie Hicks
as Mrs. Boykin
as Miss Thompson
as Aunt May
as Josie
as Mrs. Ennis
as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
as Miss Bragg
as Olga
as Birdie Hicks
as Grandma McSweeney
as Mrs. Richards
as Mrs. Johnson
as Anna
as Sarah Lowell
as Ma Cassidy
as Martha Gravitt
as Harriet
as Anna Kurin
as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
as Longacre Lil
as Mike O'Glendy
as Mrs. Jackson
as Mrs. Thompson
as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
as Aunt Fannie Handley
as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
as Aunt Matilda Collinge
as Tarusa
as Aunt Mathilda
as Mrs. Smith
as Mrs. Krausheimer
as Susie
as Anna Vaughn
as Mrs. Smith
as Mrs. McGillicuddy
as Marta
as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
as Margaret
as Head Matron Ingles
as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
as Chief Matron Brackett
as Minerva Withers
as Sarah, the Housekeeper
as Temperance Woman
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
as Sarah
as Ingrid (uncredited)
as Mrs. Haskins
as Prison Matron
as Ma Daley
as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
as Mrs. McGillivray
as Annie (uncredited)
as Mrs. Mustavas
as Mrs. Markham
as Mrs. Engstrom
as Cora Waxley
as Lieschen
as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
as Mrs. Leeson
as Mrs. Fenner
as Miss Belinda Fentridge
as Lillian
as Jenny Hawkins
as Mrs. Dupont
as Hattie Simmerson
as Martha
as Mrs. Whipple
as Matilda
as Ma Boyer
as Miss Eccles
as Hitty Tarbox
as Mrs. Unthank
as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
as Dolly Breckenridge
as Kate
as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
as Genevieve Graham
as Matron
as Mrs. Kaise Novak
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)